Dear Editor,
I must admit that when I heard the leader of the People’s National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller tracing off people while on stage I really did think that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had digitally manipulated a similar scene with her some years ago when she boldly declared that she “no ‘fraid a no bwoy, no gyal, nowhere, no how”. Imagine my shock when I found out that her ‘spirit’ taken control of her again!
Of course, Simpson Miller may very well have been talking (it was really more like shouting out her lungs, though) metaphorically. Even so, such a display from the leader of a major political party, and the country’s former prime minister, is most unbecoming. I wonder why is it she must act in this outlandish and raucous way when she is upset?
Portia must understand that if she was speaking metaphorically, some of her supporters may not have seen her behaviour as such and may, indeed, see her attacking behaviour as her way of calling her supporters to war. I really don’t think she was encouraging her supporters to act like animals. At least, I hope so.
As usual, some senior PNP officials have rushed to defend her behaviour. We already have the party’s general secretary defending the indefensible.
Another senior member the PNP once called some of our schoolchildren “leggo beasts”. I wonder what he would honestly call Simpson Miller’s tirade on that platform. Indeed, I wonder if any of the PNP’s bigwigs will have the testicular fortitude to tell Simpson Miller that the party can do without that sort of barking on stage?
Many of us have become completely turned off from politics. That kind of war-like display from the leader of the Opposition has certainly done nothing to change our minds about the sad state of Jamaica’s politics. Portia has only strengthened the conviction of people like myself that these politicians are really a bunch of good-for-nothings.
I am sure that Simpson Miller could have made her point in a more polite way. She has set a very poor example for her followers with behaviour on stage. When is she going to grow up?
I saw someone on television some time ago telling us that she knew Portia Simpson Miller when she was a much younger person growing up in her constituency and the behaviour has not changed much. Portia has been in politics for a very long time now — too long, according to some. She needs to grow up or go!
There is a common saying, “You can take the person out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person.” Why Portia Simpson Miller continues to make that maxim true is totally beyond me.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com
I must admit that when I heard the leader of the People’s National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller tracing off people while on stage I really did think that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had digitally manipulated a similar scene with her some years ago when she boldly declared that she “no ‘fraid a no bwoy, no gyal, nowhere, no how”. Imagine my shock when I found out that her ‘spirit’ taken control of her again!
Of course, Simpson Miller may very well have been talking (it was really more like shouting out her lungs, though) metaphorically. Even so, such a display from the leader of a major political party, and the country’s former prime minister, is most unbecoming. I wonder why is it she must act in this outlandish and raucous way when she is upset?
Portia must understand that if she was speaking metaphorically, some of her supporters may not have seen her behaviour as such and may, indeed, see her attacking behaviour as her way of calling her supporters to war. I really don’t think she was encouraging her supporters to act like animals. At least, I hope so.
As usual, some senior PNP officials have rushed to defend her behaviour. We already have the party’s general secretary defending the indefensible.
Another senior member the PNP once called some of our schoolchildren “leggo beasts”. I wonder what he would honestly call Simpson Miller’s tirade on that platform. Indeed, I wonder if any of the PNP’s bigwigs will have the testicular fortitude to tell Simpson Miller that the party can do without that sort of barking on stage?
Many of us have become completely turned off from politics. That kind of war-like display from the leader of the Opposition has certainly done nothing to change our minds about the sad state of Jamaica’s politics. Portia has only strengthened the conviction of people like myself that these politicians are really a bunch of good-for-nothings.
I am sure that Simpson Miller could have made her point in a more polite way. She has set a very poor example for her followers with behaviour on stage. When is she going to grow up?
I saw someone on television some time ago telling us that she knew Portia Simpson Miller when she was a much younger person growing up in her constituency and the behaviour has not changed much. Portia has been in politics for a very long time now — too long, according to some. She needs to grow up or go!
There is a common saying, “You can take the person out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person.” Why Portia Simpson Miller continues to make that maxim true is totally beyond me.
Michael A Dingwall
michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com